After inheriting the estate from his grandfather, Joseph Medill, Robert R. McCormick named Cantigny for the World War I battle in which he fought. While serving as publisher and editor of the Chicago Tribune, McCormick maintained Cantigny as an experimental farm where new agricultural theories were tested. Upon his death in 1955, McCormick established a charitable trust to maintain Cantigny as a public park, which now boasts a museum, golf course, restaurants and tours of McCormick's estate.